Dear cni-announce subscribers:

Posting on behalf of Martin Halbert, who is co-authoring, with Charles Forrest, a second edition of A Field Guide to the Information Commons. (Disclosure - I contributed to the first edition and plan to update my chapter for the second edition). The book will contain a section describing new types of library spaces in institutions, and the authors seek information about facilities such as information or learning commons and makerspaces. I encourage you to contribute information through the survey link in the message below. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Greetings,

I'm absolutely delighted to announce that Julie Brill will be giving the closing keynote at our December 2015 membership meeting. I'll have a bit more to say about this when we send out the meeting roadmap in a couple of weeks, but briefly, Julie is a Commisioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) who has been doing some absolutely extraordinary work on privacy and security in the digital world. I've had the opportunity to hear her speek on these issues several times over the past year, and she has a very deep understanding of the implications of "big data" and algorithmic decision-making and classification, particularly in the consumer context. There's more bio on the CNI web site.

Julie has very graciously agreed to join us and share some of her thinking about privacy and analytics in the higher education context. She's titled her talk "Transparency, Trust and Consumer Protection in a Complex World". Here is her abstract:

In a world that is becoming increasingly complex and data-intensive, trust is becoming ever more important. If consumers do not trust organizations and the systems that they use to collect, analyze, and use their personal data, consumers may reject technologies that could offer significant social and individual benefits. Transparency is a key element of building and maintaining consumer trust. Providing effective transparency, however, is a challenge for companies that are developing new connected devices and apps and predictive analytics services. Using a series of illustrations based on the Internet of Things and big data analytics, Commissioner Brill will discuss strategies for providing transparency in our interconnected, complex world, with a particular focus on the roles that researchers and consumer protection agencies like the Federal Trade Commission in putting these strategies into practice.

This should be a wonderful session. I hope to see you at our fall membership meeting.

Posting on behalf of our colleague Martin Halbert. The Open Access Symposium at UNT brings together a wide range of speakers and promises to be an excellent program. The call for proposals is now available. The Library Publishing Forum call for proposals will be available later this month. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

Greetings,

We are pleased to issue the call for proposals for the 7th annual Open Access Symposium at UNT, the premier annual conference regarding Open Access, attracting speakers and attendees from around the world. The conference will be held on the main campus of the UNT system in Denton, Texas, just north of Dallas. This year we invite both classic presentations as well as a variety of alternative and interactive session formats. We hope you’ll not only attend and but also propose a presentation. Also, please note that the OA Symposium is offered in conjunction with the 2016 Library Publishing Forum, which will be held just before the Symposium (see link below). We hope you’ll not only attend and but also propose a presentation. Please join us for a Texas sized welcome and pair of great conferences and associated events!

A preliminary title/speaker list of project briefings to be presented at CNI's fall meeting is now available: https://wp.me/P1LncT-64x

Details are subject to change.

The meeting will be held Dec. 14-15 in Washington, DC, at the Capital Hilton.

-- Diane Goldenberg-Hart Communications Coordinator | CNI 202-296-5098 | diane@cni.org www.cni.org | twitter.com/cni_org facebook.com/cni.org

I am pleased to announce that North Carolina State University Library has put the presentations from the Designing Libraries IV conference, co-sponsored by University of Calgary and CNI and held in September, 2015, online. There is a wealth of information here on trends in library buildings, technologies, services, and organizational issues. https://mckimmon.online.ncsu.edu/online/Catalog/Full/204eeecb2f0f4b4ba1d9b13bc33f1dd321

Joan Lippincott, CNI

Joan K. Lippincott, Ph.D. Associate Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202-296-5098 202-872-0886 (Fax) joan@cni.org www.cni.org

On September 8, 2015, the University of Michigan announced a large scale ($100 Million) initiative on Data Science. You can find general information on the initiative at:

As part of this launch, the University hosted a full day symposium on October 6. The slides and video for this event are now available online at:

Cni-announce subscribers are invited to participate in the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative survey to identify the 2016 key issues in teaching and learning. --Joan Lippincott CNI

——— Greetings, colleagues! I’m writing to let you know that the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative has just launched its 2016 Key Issues in Teaching and Learning Survey. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey; it should take at most five minutes.

Each year, the ELI surveys the teaching and learning community in order to discover the key issues and themes in teaching and learning. These top issues provide the thematic foundation or basis for all of our conversations, courses, and publications for the coming year. Longitudinally they also provide the way to track the evolving discourse in the teaching and learning space. More information about this annual survey can be found here.

Here is the call for submissions for the upcoming 2016 Personal Digital Archiving meeting. CNI is delighted to once again serve as a cooperating organization for this conference.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

We are pleased to announce that the annual Personal Digital Archiving 2016 conference will be hosted at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on May 12-14, 2016.

Today, as part of Open Access Week, Jisc and CNI have released the report of our July 2014 joint meeting titled "The Journey Towards Openness".

Every two years, Jisc and CNI have brought together a small group of leaders from both the US and the UK to explore a topic of joint interest related to digital content, technology, and higher education. At this meeting we took a very broad look at what we called the the "journey towards openness", encompassing open access, open data and open scholarship, some of the interrelationships among these developments, and some particular challenges in international cooperation to advance these shifts. The report also contains brief summaries of a number of important events that have taken place since the 2014 conference, providing an ongoing context for the discussions.

There is a short blog post summarizing the report at

The Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society has recently issued a call for proposals for case studies dealing with complex issues of data ethics. This is a great opportunity to explore and contribute to a badly needed base of knowledge in these areas.

Details can be found at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

In June, 2015 the Knowledge Exchange, a partnership of JISC in the UK, the DFG in Germany, SURF in the Netherlands, Denmark's DEFF and CSC, the IT Center for Science in Finland, which focuses on digital infrastructure for research and scholarship, held a workshop to continue its exploration of national strategies for implementing researcher identifiers such as ORCID and ISNI. There's a report of this workshop now available at:

https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/6181/1/KE-report-national-approaches-to-ORCID-and-ISNI.pdf

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

On September 9-10, 2015 I was fortunate to be able to attend the Library of Congress 2015 Symposium on Storage Architectures for Digital Collections. This invitational meeting, which LC sponsors every fall, is unique in its focus on the intersection of technology and economic trends in storage systems (of all types) with the special needs of very large scale digital archives and collections. The presentations from this meeting are now available at

and represent a wonderful resource for those interested in such issues.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Several key deadlines for CNI's fall membership meeting are fast approaching:

• Project briefing proposals are due by Oct. 19: https://wp.me/P1LncT-64z

• Make hotel reservations by Nov. 11 for conference rate; rooms ARE currently available. For best results, make reservations by using this link: https://aws.passkey.com/event/14145972/owner/25255/home (there have been some reported problems with the link included in the mailing to representatives).

• Registration closes Nov. 11.

Deanna Marcum and Roger Schoenfeld of Ithaka are hosting a workshop co-located with the December CNI meeting on Managing and Organizing Talent in the Academic Library; this will take place on the morning of Monday December 14.

More details and registration information are below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication has just published a special issue (volume 3 issue 2) covering research data management, edited by Gail Clement and Lisa Schiff. There are numerous articles in this issue that will be of interest to the CNI community, I believe, and the table of contents can be found here:

The journal is open access.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The OECD has just issued a report titled "Making Open Science A Reality" which looks at the promise of open science and explores policy issues, initiatives and barriers to progress. The report can be found at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Dear cni-announce subscribers: The ACRL Digital Scholarship Centers Interest Group is sponsoring a free web meeting on a timely topic - integrating research faculty into the planning and management of library-based DH centers. Please see registration information below. Joan Lippincott, CNI

Do you operate or participate in your institution’s Digital Scholarship Center? Are you thinking of partnering with others to develop one at your institution? Just want to learn more about Digital Scholarship Centers? Then you might be interested in this upcoming virtual meeting of the ACRL Digital Scholarship Centers Interest Group: We have invited two special guests to join us for a discussion about how to integrate faculty and fellows into the DSC.

Below is a description of the event. It is free but you must register in advance. Here is the link to the registration page:

Posting on behalf of our colleagues at UNC-Chapel Hill. --Joan Lippincott, CNI

We are excited to announce that IPRES 2015, the premiere international conference on Digital Preservation, will be held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA from November 2-6, 2015. IPRES rotates between North America, Asia, and Europe and it will not be North America again until 2018. For more detailed information regarding the 2015 event, please visit http://ipres2015.org/. Earlybird Registration rates (until October 1) include: $650 inclusive of the conference, workshops, tutorials, and all receptions and dinner (M-F); $475 for the main conference including dinner and two receptions $250 for full-times students for the entire week $150 for full-day workshops and tutorials $100 for half-day workshops and tutorials Full Registration Includes 5 days of activities: All sessions Workshops/tutorials (Monday and Friday) Monday and Wednesday receptions Conference dinner on Tuesday Lunch daily Morning and afternoon refreshments Bus service to and from many hotels to the conference Bus service to the Monday reception and Tuesday dinner Free parking at the Friday Center for drivers See the Registration tab on the IPRES2015 website. Descriptions of the workshops and tutorials can be found at https://ipres2015.web.unc.edu/workshops-and-tutorials/. Conference topics include but are not limited to explorations in digital preservation focused on: Institutional opportunities and challenges Infrastructure (organizational and technological) opportunities and challenges Innovative practice Education and training Please see http://ipres2015.web.unc.edu/ipres-2015-program/ for the full program. Chapel Hill is home to the University of North Carolina, the flagship campus of the UNC system, the oldest public university in the US, and one of the top schools in the country. While exuding a small town feel, Chapel Hill offers food, fun, and culture the caliber of a big city. Check out this recent New York Times travel piece, 36 Hours in Chapel Hill-Carborro, N.C., for just a taste of what the town has to offer. While here for the conference, you will have the opportunity to dine at world class eateries, grab a drink at some blossoming breweries, and experience a wealth of museums and other cultural offerings. Also, the leaves will just be turning the first week of November! IMPORTANT: A refund will be offered, minus a $100.00 processing fee, for refund inquiries submitted before October 1, 2015. NO REFUNDS ARE PERMITTED AFTER OCTOBER 1, 2015. For refund inquiries, please contact Cassie Ragan at cmragan@email.unc.edu. Thank you for your interest in the 2015 iPRES Conference, we look forward to seeing you in Chapel Hill in November! For accommodations, please visit http://ipres2015.web.unc.edu/accommodations/. For questions concerning the Conference please contact Cal Lee at callee@email.unc.edu or Helen Tibbo at tibbo@email.unc.edu. For questions concerning registration or payment please contact Cassie Ragan at cmragan@email.unc.edu. Hope to see you in Chapel Hill! -Helen

Dr. Helen R. Tibbo, Alumni Distinguished Professor President, 2010-2011 & Fellow, Society of American Archivists School of Information and Library Science 201 Manning Hall, CB#3360 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Tel: 919-962-8063 Fax: 919-962-8071 tibbo@ils.unc.edu

It's rare to see in-depth historical and critical review of important programs within our community, and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Fellowships have certainly been an extremely important innovation, so I'm delighted to share the announcement of this recent study (reproduced below).

The CLIR fellows have been ongoing guests at our CNI membership meetings (as part of CNI's commitment to community leadership development), and so many readers of this list will have likely encountered some of the outstanding participants in this program at our meetings in recent years.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

The dates have now been set for the 2016 Personal Digital Archiving Conference; it will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan on May 12-14, 2016.

I will post additional information on the conference as it becomes available, but I know that some subscribers of this list will want to hold the dates .

CNI is delighted to once again serve as a co-sponsor for this important conference.

Clifford Lynch DIrector, CNI